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Kyli Smithson hit a game-winning two-run double in the seventh to lift Kentucky Wesleyan to a 3-1 victory over host Trevecca Nazarene in Nashville on Thursday evening.
The Trojans scored their lone run in the third.
Meagan Sallee opened the seventh by tying the game at one-all by hitting a double scoring
Ashley Crooke.
Smithson and
Meagan Sallee both collected two hits in three plate appearances.
Ashlee Winstead pitched a three-hitter with seven strikeouts in a complete game.
In the second contest, Crooke hit a game-winning two-run homer in the seventh to push the Panthers to a 7-6 win.
Trevecca jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first before
Kaci Ovelgoenner scored on a throwing error in the second to close the gap to 2-1.
Sallee drove in three runs on a double in the third scoring Ovelgoenner,
Mackenzie Weedman and Amber Pendegraft to grabbed the lead at 4-2.
The Trojans responded with four in the fourth to overtake the lead.
Weedman started the fifth with a triple followed by Crooke's sacrifice fly to bring her home to reduce the margin to 6-5.
Josalyn Ress started by throwing four innings. Winstead finished the final three innings to pick-up the win with four strikeouts and allowing one hit.
KWC (10-18) host No. 1 Indianapolis in a Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheader on Saturday at noon.
